The decision comes as lay teachers are assuming a larger role in Catholic schools.

In addition to the religious orders, the school's faculty includes a number of lay teachers.

Twenty years ago, the lay teachers were in the minority.

It was taught by lay teachers and closed around 1890.

But those same real concerns draw the lay teachers away from the school to their own families and lives.

It is now staffed by lay teachers, as were the earlier schools.

This also served as the general staff room for the college which was most useful to the lay teachers.

With access to the school opening up, more lay teachers were recruited.

The lay teachers who replaced the religious needed better wages.

Numbers had increased to 169 by the next year and two lay teachers joined the staff.